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The Frackers: The Outrageous Inside Story Of The New Billionaire Wildcatters (2013)

by Gregory Zuckerman(Favorite Author)

3.89 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

1591846455 (ISBN13: 9781591846451)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Portfolio Hardcover

review 1: To sum up the point of the book, when they couldn't drill anymore, they started fracking to get as much old that they can with no regards to anything else. "The Frackers" are a bunch of lottery winners from past black gold. I'm not an environmentalist, but the book is very neutral. The author is very melancholy at where he stands. "The Frackers" is strictly a biography on the oil tycoons It's too early to tell what fracking is doing to the environment and this book is very lack luster, but I hope that I don't see the day when "Frack You" becomes the new slang. There is no information on the process of fracking. It's all about the business of chipping for Crude.
review 2: Written like a thriller/ novel - it's good on the facts but it's too massive a book ... morefor a subject that would take may be a quarter of the size.The fracking and horizontal drilling revolution seems real for now, and this book gives us a good history of the extraction business.Good stories about Cheniere, Chesapeake, EOG, Oryx, Continental and how they battled 'accepted wisdom', debts, and a volatile price of gas and oil.Enjoyed the book but the length killed it.Note: The glut of gas currently is interestingThe crazy long periods of low gas and oil prices of the 80s and 90s are something to always beware ofTrading using debt (the CEOs/ founders did that) and trading leveraged products really kill less

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